Catching up on the Backlog pt. 3: 'Original' stuff

This post is probably the most lean in terms of content. Some of the drawings that would go with the ones here aren't finished but instead of waiting until they are, I'm going to go plow ahead and post the finished ones anyway just to get them out of the way. 

I was drawing people while watching a beach movie from the sixties called "Beach Ball". 

I came up with months ago an idea of doing an ironic/semi-ironic pastiche of the sappy cartoons from the 1980s involving cute things like puppies, kittens, ponies, etc. as a webcomic and calling it Kettle Kitties. Mostly I came up with it as a way to flex my character design muscles. These are just concept drawings at the moment. Some of them have evolved into actual characters but everything is still in the planning stage at this point.

My own versions of Woody Woodpecker, in an attempt I'd say waaaay back in other post that I should do my own versions of the cartoon studies using what I've learned, plus I've been drawing Woody a lot lately. Once I figured out how he's put together, I've been doodling him a lot lately. 

Quick Draw McGraw

The more, wacky-looking Woody Woodpecker

end of pt. 3

Catching Up on the Backlog pt 2: Non-Cartoon Studies

I've been wanting to brush up on my figure drawing. I drew from paintings and sculptures in my

Study of the David statue by Donatello. (not from this same angle)

"Hermes and the Infant Dionysus", possibly by Praxiteles

Drawn from a magazine of Charlize Theron's evil queen from the "Snow White and the Huntsman" movie. I haven't seen it yet, I just thought her costume was cool.

end of pt. 2

Wolves and Foxes: Doodles n' Junk

Grr. I hate when the scanner acts up. Means I have this backlog of stuff. There are stuff I need to clean-up and redraw (maybe I should make the move of sketching in pen instead of pencil, if just so the drawings show up) so this is just a taste of things to come. 

More pen testing doodles. My Dad thinks that the girl at the top left looks like Elizabeth Montgomery. 

Mark Christiansen suggested I try creating my own characters with the principles from the Preston Blair book so I was sort of experimenting with character concepts, mostly wolves and foxes. 

Drawing foxes is fun :3

I've been drawing lambs lately too. 

Animals, Birds, Fashion and Sugary Bubblegum

First off, my Preston Blair studies

 

Then I did some fashion drawings from a book of fashion through the past century. I stopped at the eighties and nineties because well...I didn't want to do 'em. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 If I could go back in time and redo these, I would tell myself not to focus on getting ALL the wrinkles in the clothes right and to do the body shape first and draw the clothes over the shape. 

 

These are just random stuff

 I did this as an experiment for the Food Mascot Project. (yeah...that thing) Its the Fruit Stripe zebra.